Asian World Podcast: Exploring History and Culture with Dr. Michael Hawkins

This episode examines the traditional schools of thought surrounding 19th and 20th century imperial impact in China and Chinese response. It critically analyzes various scholarly views and attempts to offer a more nuanced and workable approach to the subject, taking into account Chinese historical agency and autonomy.

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This podcast examines the various historiographical trends that have shaped the intellectual and political integration of Filipino Muslims into a developing national narrative over the past century in the Philippines. This piece highlights the various intersections and points of contention that frame a negotiated exchange between majority and minority populations in the Philippines. Questions of cultural and national authenticity, ...

As scholars have attempted to move away from Eurocentric views over the past few decades and integrate disparate parts of the world into a more democratic narrative of world history, they have increasingly relied on the present as an empirical guidepost. The motives and rationales for this primary concern with the present as a source of historical knowledge are complex and deeply embedded in epistemolo- gical traditions and chronot...

This episode explores the rise and nature of colonial consciousness in Southeast Asia among the colonized. It looks at the various modern developments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that not only created an awareness of colonial oppression but systematically demythologized colonial regimes.

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This article explores the remarkable temporal perceptions and attempted historical habitations of a young Javanese noblewoman at the turn of the century in the Dutch East Indies. It examines the ways in which this young woman used the concepts of relative temporality, civilizational evolution, and stagist histories to challenge both the imposition of Dutch colonialism and the conventions of her indigenous culture. We need your supp...

This episode continues our discussion of Orientalism with a look at the British rediscovery of India after the Mutiny of 1857, and their attempts to surveil, taxonomize, and control colonial populations through new technologies. It examines the creation of identities, social categories, and the legacies of these colonial methodologies in our contemporary world. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe...

This episode explores "Orientalism" as a phenomenon and legacy of Western empire. It specifically analyzes British efforts to discover, define, categorize, and exhibit all things "Indian." It closes by examining this legacy as it manifests in the present day. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/2ec80f54⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.facebook.com/profile...

This article explores the creation and processes of imperial historicism among Moro populations in the Southern Philippines while accounting for a number of disturbing disruptions and anomalies in the Americans’ historical narrative (such as slavery and Islamic civilisation) that threatened to unravel the tightly circumscribed concept of a uniform and interpretable progressive transitional past. It also examines the ways in which A...

This episode explores the meanings and function of frontier violence in the southern Philippines during a period of American military rule (1898-1913). It looks specifically at notions of colonial and frontier justice as demonstrated in the local press, and links these to the larger ideals and objectives of American colonialism.

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This episode looks at the development and imposition of Britain's "Civilizing Mission" in India and the terrible consequences that result from it. It explores concepts of imperialism, emasculation, and the emergence of modern racism, concluding with a look at the battle over Sati, or the Hindu practice of widow burning.

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 This episode discusses the interesting practice of foot binding in the Song Dynasty and beyond. It examines the incentives, methods, and consequences of the practice, and analyzes its strange relevance to fashion and culture in our contemporary work. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠https://gofund.me/2ec80f54⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557270533439⁠⁠⁠...

This reading explores American efforts in the colonial Philippines to instill a consciousness of history and modernity among Filipinos through a carefully crafted philosophy of time. It focuses primarily on David Barrow’s work, History of the Philippine Islands (1905), as the embodiment of a broad discourse permeating notions of superiority and inferiority, historicity and ahistoricity, and civilizational development — notions whic...

This article examines the delicate ideological maneuverings that shaped American colonial constructions of savagery, civility, and gender in the wake of the Bud Dajo massacre in the Philippines’s Muslim south in 1906. It looks particularly at shifting notions of femininity and masculinity as these related to episodes of violence and colonial control. The article concludes that, while the Bud Dajo massacre was a terrible black mark ...

This episode details Southeast Asia's unique matri-focal culture. It explores the ways in which gyno-centric tendencies influence courtship and marriage, household management, commerce, politics, cosmology, and sexuality throughout the region. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠https://gofund.me/2ec80f54⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557270533439⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 

This article explores the intellectual dilemma of reconciling Southeast Asia's imperial past and colonial legacy with the realities and validity of indigenous agency. By critiquing notions of disrupted historical trajectories, this paper attempts to move Southeast Asian studies away from reified and teleologically confining narratives of imperial determinism while simultaneously negotiating the risks associated with overly disc...

This article offers an examination of the gendering of the Philippines’ Muslim South under American military rule (1899–1913) through discourses of violence against women. It explores the exposition and discussion of cases involving abuse, murder, enslavement, and violence in both official and unofficial reports, which revealed a critical discourse of gender construction for both coloniser and colonised in Moro Province. We need yo...